End-to-End Testing Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

End-to-End Testing
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring End-to-End Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 63 64
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 +5
Contract jobs citing End-to-End Testing 8 3 3
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.86% 0.49% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% 0.54% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £468 - -
25th Percentile £477 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.63% - -
75th Percentile £539 - -
90th Percentile £549 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £448 £519 -
% change year-on-year -13.68% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Birmingham

End-to-End Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 767 556 589
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 82.47% 90.85% 83.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 422 364 383
10th Percentile £299 £203 £200
25th Percentile £400 £370 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £638
90th Percentile £688 £663 £750
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £514
% change year-on-year -5.00% -2.68% +2.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 53 9
10th Percentile £13.45 - £21.10
25th Percentile £19.34 £12.62 £25.56
Median hourly rate £43.96 £18.87 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +132.96% -62.26% +66.67%
75th Percentile £55.00 £22.08 £55.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £26.51 £57.80
West Midlands median hourly rate £27.30 £23.00 £24.18
% change year-on-year +18.70% -4.88% -12.07%

End-to-End Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing End-to-End Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

End-to-End Testing job vacancy trend in Birmingham

End-to-End Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing End-to-End Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing End-to-End Testing

End-to-End Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
1 4 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (25.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) GitLab
1 4 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (50.00%) REST Assured
1 4 (50.00%) Selenium
1 4 (50.00%) Serenity BDD
2 3 (37.50%) Gatling
3 1 (12.50%) Cypress.io
General
1 7 (87.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Lead
1 4 (50.00%) Test Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Lead Test Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Test Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Principal Test Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Programme Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Programme Test Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Salesforce Programme Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Test Leader
4 1 (12.50%) Test Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) Playwright
2 4 (50.00%) Kafka
3 2 (25.00%) Spring
3 2 (25.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (25.00%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Test Strategy
2 6 (75.00%) Test Automation
3 5 (62.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (62.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (50.00%) DevOps
4 4 (50.00%) Microservices
4 4 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
4 4 (50.00%) SDET
4 4 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
4 4 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (37.50%) API Testing
5 3 (37.50%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 3 (37.50%) Integration Testing
6 2 (25.00%) Agile
6 2 (25.00%) Defect Management
6 2 (25.00%) Migration
6 2 (25.00%) Performance Testing
6 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (25.00%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) Kotlin
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) ISTQB
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Grafana
1 2 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Splunk
2 1 (12.50%) Salesforce